| Subject: | Re: BBC Sound Archives |
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| From: | "Richard Ranft bt openworld" richard6054 |
| Date: | Sun Sep 2, 2007 9:30 am ((PDT)) |
Chris the recording you heard of the first bird song ever recorded is a caged Common Shama (Copyschus malabaricus) that Ludwig Koch, in 1889 at the age of eight, recorded on the Edison cylinder machine that his father had bought him at the local Leipzig fair. You can read more about Ludwig Koch here: http://www.wildlife-sound.org/journal/archive/koch.html Richard |
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